Prince Harry met Rihanna and they could not stop laughing
LONDON -- Prince Harry might have grown up surrounded by royalty, but -- until this week -- he hasn't really been in the presence of true pop royalty.
On Wednesday, Harry fulfilled what was surely a lifelong wish -- to meet the Queen of Pop, Rihanna. And, it wasn't just a one-off -- the pair actually met twice in the same day.
The prince -- currently on a tour of the Caribbean -- met RiRi for the first time at an afternoon event in Bridgetown, Barbados marking the country's 50 years of independence.
True to form, the prince's first words to Rihanna were frightfully British: "Hello, it's very nice to meet you."
Later that day, the pair sat next to each other on stage at a concert celebrating the anniversary of independence at the Kensington Oval cricket ground. And they couldn't contain their laughter.
Could this be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?
The question remains: are they BFFs now?
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
